Daho0n

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by Daho0n 6y ago
What you are looking at is like buying an iPhone and wanting to block Apple. You won't be able to from the phone itself (unless you flash another ROM but then you'd be better off buying something like a pine phone). If you are rea
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by Daho0n 6y ago
You must be in the second category if you think Huawei will steal credit cards and rob you.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
They are "likely worse", IE. you don't know? IMO they are not worse and the data collected by Huawei is useless compared to anything Google collects since I don't live in or near China. They also don't share it with
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by Daho0n 6y ago
I see nothing wrong with that. Looking at where the US is going I'd hate to be there if something I like becomes the next Red Scare.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
No. Not perfect, not bad.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
333ms is ages! I can react way faster than that on a touchscreen. I bet you can too: https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime
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by Daho0n 6y ago
>I'd honestly pay extra for an iPhone where I can disable ALL motion, too. I do that on my Android phone. Feels snappier than the iPhone now. Not perfect though. Scrolling sucks. JavaScript is bad but nowadays that's not the ma
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by Daho0n 6y ago
He never received the trade in kit.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Why do you post multiple comments with unsubstantiated things that never happened? Apple made multiple mistakes here and he made none.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Please don't.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
That wasn't what happened. * He was expecting a trade-in kit that never arrived * He contacted them but got no answer * They contacted him but got no answer (also because the reply address did not exist) * The Apple Card autopay failed
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by Daho0n 6y ago
In most of the world it couldn't even happen as there're not branded cards everywhere. I haven't seen one in my life outside US made movies..
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Banks aren't allow to do anything like this.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
>It's the same thing that people complain about with Google all the time: do something slightly weird with something related to your Google account You don't even need to go outside Apple's ecosystem to find an example. Wh
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Clearly it goes both ways.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Why? It's not any better than where they are now. If anything US court will drag it our even longer. Also Frogware already lost.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
So the small pay for the large?
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by Daho0n 6y ago
On its own? Worse than Google. With all things Google have access to from else where? Way better.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
I live in Europe. If I weren't a privacy nut I'd pick Xiaomi any day over Apple or Google. Now I use Android with OPNsense in front of it via VPN. Chinese phones doesn't log more than the other smartphones.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Using pihole is effective but don't try blocking a Chromecast like this. I did and even using two piholes the network got killed by these hundreds of DNS requests per second to Google.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Chrome is popular on HN so you are wrong, sadly.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Firefox puts Google in its own container just like Facebook. It also block third party cookies and is way better at avoiding fingerprinting than chrome.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
> I also don't grant that the two governments are equivalent threats to privacy So for someone like me, living in a 14 eyes country, are you saying it is worse for my privacy that a government on the other side of the earth that my
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Would I rather have some data harvested by the local three letter agency and some by a random Chinese company versus all my data harvested by an American entity (most western three letter agencies share with the US)? I would most definitely
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by Daho0n 6y ago
>the populists that have ruled the capitol for the last 10 years or so. So the instant someone is elected they start calling Random Joe for funding their next campaign? Of course not. Politicians talk to people who help fund them, that o
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Anti-consumer? By the capitalist businesses? Of course. It's just like buying crap from Amazon. If you use it you support it.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Yes, if you are in a country friendly with the US it is better to have Xiaomi harvest the data than Apple.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
And yet from the free to export US we keep finding backdoors and hardcoded admin passwords in things that are supposed to be way more secure than a random chat client. Even if all of them are actually bugs I'm not sure that is any bett
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by Daho0n 6y ago
Don't pretend any other country have as much surveillance capability as the US does. There are levels to the awfulness and not everyone is at final boss level. Most are random green scrubs comparatively.
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by Daho0n 6y ago
About your second edit: If you live anywhere on earth that isn't in the geographical area of China it would likely be better to have data going to China than the big US corps. For most it is unlikely the data could be used against you

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